芸芸众生，谁不想成功，谁不想令世人瞩目，诗人在诗中展示了成功背后，包含多少辛酸，经历多少磨难，忍受多少痛楚。有道是“天将降大任于斯人也，必先苦其心志，劳其筋骨”。如果我们能正视成功前的种.种困难，勇于接受挑战；失败了，何畏惧，重头再来。那样，我们便成为了一个顶天立地之人。
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nif — rudyard kipling
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n如果 —— 拉迪亚德·吉卜林
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nif you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
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n如果周围的人毫无理性地向你发难，你仍能镇定自若保持冷静；
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nif you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting too;
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n如果众人对你心存猜忌，你仍能自信如常并认为他们的猜忌情有可原；
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nif you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
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n如果你肯耐心等待不急不躁，
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nor, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
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n或遭人诽谤却不以牙还牙，
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nor, being hated, don't give way to hating,
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n或遭人憎恨却不以恶报恶；
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nand yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
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n既不装腔作势，亦不气盛趾高；
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nif you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
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n如果你有梦想，而又不为梦主宰；
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nif you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
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n如果你有神思，而又不走火入魔；
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nif you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two impostors just the same;
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n如果你坦然面对胜利和灾难，对虚渺的胜负荣辱胸怀旷荡；
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nif you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
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n如果你能忍受有这样的无赖，歪曲你的口吐真言蒙骗笨汉，
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nor watch the things you gave your life to broken, and stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools;
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n或看着心血铸就的事业崩溃，仍能忍辱负重脚踏实地重新攀登；
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nif you can make one heap of all your winnings and risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
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n如果你敢把取得的一切胜利，为了更崇高的目标孤注一掷，
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nand lose, and start again at your beginnings and never breathe a word about your loss;
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n面临失去，决心从头再来而绝口不提自己的损失；
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nif you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone,
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n如果人们早已离你而去，你仍能坚守阵地奋力前驱，
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nand so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them:"hold on";
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n身上已一无所有，唯存意志在高喊“顶住”；
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nif you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
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n如果你跟平民交谈而不变谦虚之态,
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nor walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
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n亦或与王侯散步而不露谄媚之颜；
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nif neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
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n如果敌友都无法对你造成伤害；
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nif all men count with you, but none too much;
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n如果众人对你信赖有加却不过分依赖；
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nif you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
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n如果你能惜时如金利用每一分钟不可追回的光阴；
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nyours is the earth and everything that's in it,
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n那么，你的修为就会如天地般博大，并拥有了属于自己的世界，
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nand - which is more - you'll be a man my son!
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n更重要的是：孩子，你成为了真正顶天立地之人！